Amazon Web Services may be down for thousands of users

Amazon’s cloud-based service — Amazon Web Services — is down for thousands of users on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 10,000 users reported issues with accessing the service, according to Downdetector. The website tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Though the exact number is not available, outage appears to be affecting a larger number of users.

Most users have reported issues with the AWS website, some with AWS console and few have complained of server connection error.

Message on AWS dashboard